A huge thanks goes out to Staska.Net who pointed me to Ronald's fix for the new "feature" in WordPress 2.1 that cuts off your RSS feeds at the <!-- more --> tag. I had to use that tag in order to format my homepage the way I wanted to, so I had just resigned myself to having to publish only a partial feed. Not anymore! Now I can have the best of both worlds, ... Keep reading »
I ran into Labor Nurse when she submitted an essay for our scholarship contest over at Nursing Jobs.org. Her essay definitely stood out, and I spent some time reading her blog. Very, very entertaining, so I asked her if I could interview her for Ask Shane. She kindly agreed, and I think there's a little something for everyone in our conversation; we covered quite a bit of ground. I hope you enjoy it!
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When I asked "Does an RSS Feed Imply Republish Rights?" I never thought I'd see as blatant a case as Spivot. (You'll have to type www.spivot.com into your browser to get to their site, because there's no way I'm giving them a link.)
They're building a business on making it easy for people to find your content ... and then read it on their site. In fact, you have to work hard to even find a link to ... Keep reading »